The 2009 Silicon Alley 100

For many New York tech and media companies, 2009 was a year to
forget: Declining advertising and subscription revenue,
penny-pinching customers, and extra-careful investors made for an
unpleasant business environment -- at least the first half of the
year.

But that didn't stop people from doing important, interesting,
and/or cool stuff in 2009!

So for this year's Silicon Alley 100, we focused on highlighting
individuals -- 113, to be exact -- who made a mark this year.

To be clear, this year's list is not a "power and influence"
list. It's a list of people in the NYC digital community who did
really cool stuff. So if you're powerful and influential and
you're wondering why you're not on the list, maybe you just spent
the year sitting around on your powerful duff.

The list is also not ranked. When the criteria is "did important,
interesting, and/or cool stuff," any ranking would be arbitrary.
So you can tell everyone you're No. 1!

This year's list includes people like Tim
Armstrong, who quit his job at Google to take over as AOL's
CEO; Ian
Lynch Smith, whose Brooklyn-based Freeverse Software became
one of the top iPhone gaming companies; and
Tina Brown, who is building The Daily Beast into a
beast.